MoonPay X Games Chiba 2026 Wraps Up a Thrilling Weekend!
Juno Matsouka - image via X Games
CHIBA, Japan (July 5, 2026) – MoonPay X Games Chiba 2026 wrapped up a weekend filled with elite competition and cheering crowds at Makuhari Messe. Featuring more than 80 action sports athletes representing 16 countries, the event is the second stop of the new MoonPay X Games League (XGL). X Games Club (XC) Tokyo leaves Chiba tied with XC New York at the top of the standings with 1,770 points. XC São Paulo is in third place with 1,610 and XC Los Angeles rounds out the standings with 1,510 points.
MoonPay Women's Skateboard Vert Best Trick
11-year-old Mia Kretzer Tops Podium Ahead of 15- and 13-year-olds
Mia Kretzer (XC LA) wins MoonPay Women's Skateboard Vert Best Trick at MoonPay X Games Chiba 2026. Photo Credit: Jason Halayko / X Games
With a women’s-competition-first alley-oop one-foot 540, 11-year-old Mia Kretzer (XC LA) won her second gold medal in Women’s Skateboard Vert Best Trick. She earned the gold medal two years ago at X Games Ventura 2024 that made her the youngest X Games athlete, youngest medalist, and youngest gold medalist at age 9. She closes X Games Chiba with 360 points on the board for her club. “It’s the best,” Kretzer said of the new X Games League. “I get to connect with people I don’t usually get to connect with. Being on a team with Tom Schaar is really cool, and Haze is the best manager. Team LA!” She is smashing all the X Games age records, and is now the first athlete to win three gold before turning 13.
Misuho Hasegawa (XC Tokyo) was the oldest athlete on the podium at 15 years old. She held the lead after Run 2, then was bumped to silver medal position with Kretzer’s third run. Judges liked Mizuho’s Cab heelflip Indy in Run 4 better than her earlier make, a kickflip hand flip Indy, but the upgrade didn’t improve her position. She now owns nine total X Games medals: By the close of the Vert Best Trick contest, Hasegawa’s 360 points had her atop the XGL points standings. 13-year-old Reese Nelson (Free Agent) took bronze with a switch kickflip boardslide to regular in Run 3 for her second medal in the discipline and third X Games medal.
Monster Energy Women's Skateboard Street Best Trick
Momiji Nishiya Lands a Crooked Grind Nollie Heelflip, an X Games First
Momiji Nishiya (XC NY) wins Monster Energy Women's Skateboard Street Best Trick at MoonPay X Games Chiba 2026. Photo Credit: Jason Halayko / X Games
Momiji Nishiya (XC NY) landed a crooked grind nollie heelflip in Run 4 to win gold. The trick was an X Games first, earning both the gold medal and the $10,000 MoonPay X Games NBD Award. The 18-year-old was unable to compete at X Games Sacramento. After finishing 8th in Women's Street on Saturday in Chiba, bouncing back with gold in Street Best Trick made for a sweet redemption and a return to the podium three years after her most recent previous medal. “I’m very happy that I was able to contribute to the team,” she said. With her first Street Best Trick medal, Nishiya now owns five X Games medals. Her résumé extends beyond X Games. At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she won gold just one month shy of her 14th birthday, becoming Japan's youngest-ever Olympic champion and the third-youngest Olympic gold medalist in history.
Speaking of age, Funa Nakayama (Free Agent) was the oldest competitor in the contest at 21. She was one of three women skaters competing at X Games Chiba who weren’t teens. The only undrafted athlete in the field proved she belonged. Riding first in the lineup, she patiently battled through the contest before landing a backside heelflip down the 5-flat-6 double set on her fifth attempt (Run 7) to earn silver. Surrounded by seven talented Japanese skaters, Australian Chloe Covell (XC NY) stood her ground, battling her way to bronze in Women's Street Best Trick.The 16-year-old landed a crooked grind to nollie heelflip out of the hubba ledge on her fourth attempt (Run 7), securing her 11th career X Games medal. The bronze boosted her X Games League campaign, bringing her to 260 points for XC New York.
Stake Women's Skateboard Park
Sky Brown Reps XC São Paulo for Her Fifth Career X Games Medal
Sky Brown (XC SP) wins Stake Women's Skateboard Park at MoonPay X Games Chiba 2026. Photo Credit: Yoshio Yoshida / X Games
In her first return to the top of the X Games Park podium in four years, 17-year-old star Sky Brown (XC São Paulo) took an early Run 1 lead and improved in Run 2, fending off a challenge from Mizuho Hasegawa (XC Tokyo). “I don’t have a lot of words, I am very happy, especially to win in my hometown in Japan, with my mom here and my family here cheering me on,” she said. “It’s very special.” This was Brown’s first X Games Park gold medal since her wins in 2021 and 2022. It's her fifth medal overall. Brown now has 180 points on the board for XC São Paulo after Chiba, and is ranked #21 in the XGL athlete standings. It’s the second-highest rank among single-discipline competitors, behind Sacramento and Chiba BMX Street gold medalist Garrett Reynolds. “All week I have been cheering on all of the team, and I felt the need to get this medal for them and represent them well,” she said. “I am very happy to have done that!”
Hasegawa’s silver medal Park points, combined with her points haul in Vert and Vert Best Trick between Sacramento and Chiba, leave her in first place in the X Games League overall standings, in strong position to challenge for season MVP honors. Heili Sirviö (XC NY) made the podium with bronze after a disappointing eighth place finish in Sacramento, which was the X Games Salt Lake City gold medalist and X Games Chiba 2024 bronze medalist’s only time missing the podium from four starts.